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I (don't) hate luv storys

Going to the theater with lowered expectations has become routine now. And after disappointments such as Kites, Raavan, and Rajneeti (second half) I am trying to adjust an even lower expectation level. But I think I would have liked I hate love storys even otherwise.

It's a sweet movie which will appeal to all the young college going crowd and a few older ones who are still young (and stupid) at heart (guess who? :-)). I am not saying it is an intelligent movie with out of the world performances. It was just 'sweet', if you know what I am talking about.

The movie is about 'love' as depicted in various 'love stories' and the effect it has on the working of all those human minds which dwell on them. Some of these minds end up concocting their own real life stories (which in reality do not exist). A couple of these minds concoct their love stories, and happen to stumble upon their respective Rajs and Simrans, who also have the same stories in their minds (What is the probability of such an event happening?). Here in this movie Simran is in love with the idea of love and has already found her Raj in her childhood-friend-turned-fiance. Then she gets to meet Jay (or J) and suddenly Raj becomes boring and cliched. To me Raj's character seemed like an extension of that guy in Dil Chahta Hai whom Sonali Kulkarni was dating before she met Saif. So, after Simran realizes that she is in love with Jay instead of her perfect Raj, she shares her feelings with Jay who doesn't react in the way she expected. Then after a lot of "idhar-udhar-ki baatein" and "waghaira-waghaira" finally Jay accepts that even a casanova like him had developed feelings for Simran. And then they hug and live happily ever after.

Whole of this Simran-Jay love story happens on the sets of another routine Bollywood love story, called Pyaar Pyaar Pyaar (how imaginative) where they work as art director and assistant director respectively. This Pyaar Pyaar Pyaar was Dilwaale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge meets Kuch Kuch Hota Hai meets Dil Chahta Hai meets Mohabbatein meets Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam etc etc.These spoofs and some of the one liners are the strengths of this movie. Now I don't know how many of those one-liners were original because I identified some of them (and some scenes too) lifted straight from the sitcom How I Met Your Mother. I won't be happy with anybody trying to imitate Barney Stinson. He is 'legen (wait for it)....dary'. :)

"It is not the mountains we conquer but ourselves."
-Edmund Hillary
Two years back, when I had set out on my first trek in the Himalayas, I did not know what I was getting into. It began as a quest, a search for the place that I was dreaming about for the last few years. Valley of Flowers in Uttarakhand did turn out to be straight out of my dream and I still cannot believe it. I remember sitting on that large asymmetrical rock for more than an hour, looking at the snow-clad mountains and scribbling in my diary as the cool wind blew in my face and the sun tried its best to warm my fingers.
Less than a year later, I went back to the mountains and it was then that I realized that I was meant to go back, not once or twice or thrice, I just have to be there every once in a while. May be that recurring dream had a bigger purpose than calling me to the Valley of Flowers. May be someone up there knew that it was just a beginning. And now that it has started, it shall go on till my…

I was talking to this friend after a long time and the first two questions he asked me were, 'What movie did you watch last weekend?' and 'Where are you traveling to next?'. I refused to answer his questions till he first asked me how I was. We laughed and he said that he keeps seeing my updates on movies and travel and wonders when he will find time to do that.

I have always loved to travel. I remember once my parents asked my brother and me to make a wishlist of things that we wanted. I had added 'Trip to Delhi' to that list. Then came a time when all the focus was on board exams and competitive exams, and the joy of traveling was forgotten because it mostly meant going to a new city to give some exam.
It all restarted once I came to Mumbai, 13 years back. Before I landed in this city I had turned into a shy, timid girl whose friends used to help her cross the road and get a rickshaw for her so that she doesn't have to talk to the rickshaw-wala. I can…

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A mischievous child who grew up experimenting on her sibling and ended up manipulating mice. In the course of growing up the area of interest changed from psychology to immunology. Exists in this field coz of love for science. But loves other things too like writing, sketching and painting. Would like to do something which combines all her major interests.